SpecTix 1.2a3-1.4
SpecTix provides a development environment
to build applications with graphical user interfaces that run on
multiple platforms with multiple languages.
SpecTix is based on the SpecTcl GUI builder from
Sun Microsystems Laboratories,
using the Tix
extension widgets.
SpecTix Features
- Lets you design graphical user interfaces interactively and graphically.
- Creates applications on one platform--Unix, Windows, or Macintosh--that
can run on any of the other platforms with no changes to the
application.
- Uses a geometry ``smart'' enough to keep elements aligned across
all platforms.
- Enables fast development of applications that require many more
lines of
code in traditional procedural languages.
- Provides more flexibility at run time than many languages, which
simplifies
many tasks; for example, generating menus at run time.
- Lets you integrate Tcl/Tk scripts with scripts generated in SpecTix.
- Lets you alternate quickly between design and execution, without
waiting
for long compilations; you can add something new and get immediate
feedback on how it works.
- Produces executable files that use Tcl/Tk or other target
languges so that your users don't require SpecTix.
- Lets you develop and test simple applications separately, and
combine them later into subassemblies of a larger application.
SpecTix generates target code for the following languages:
- Tcl with the Tk toolkit.
- Java with AWT
- Perl with the Tk toolkit.
- Python with the Tkinter toolkit.
- Ruby with the Tk toolkit.
SpecTix includes the features and fixes of
SpecTcl 1.2 alpha .
Download
Download Spectix from
http://starship.python.net/crew/mike/Spectix/.
Binaries are available for Linux and Windows.
Install
To install Spectix under Windows, double click on the downloaded
executable file (exe), and follow the instructions from the Install Wizard.
To install Spectix under Linux, switch to the directory
where you would like to install Spectix, and untar the archive with
tar xvfz spectix-linux-x86.tar.gz
Then run the command spectix
in the
idi-linux-x86/bin/linux-x86 directory
.
(You must change to the idi-linux-x86/bin/linux-x86 directory.)
To install Spectix under Solaris (not yet available), switch to the directory
where you would like to install Spectix, and untar the archive with
compress -dc spectix-solaris-sparc.tar.Z | tar xvf -
Then run the command spectix
in the
idi-solaris-sparc/bin/solaris-sparc
directory. (You must change to the
idi-solaris-sparc/bin/solaris-sparc directory.)
Documentation and Support
No documentation or support for Spectix is available at this time.
For bug reports or patches on Spectix, please consult the
Tixapps User's Forum.
Copyright
SpecTix is subject to the licence terms for SpecTcl
from Sun Microsystems Laboratories, which are included in the file
license.terms
in the SpecTix distribution.
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